Below is my list of 52 books (which turned into 61 as I added new books along the way) that I set a goal to read and review in 2014. Drive - Daniel Pink - next one cued up on Audible Audio Programs to Listen or Re-Listen to in 2014 46. MORE
The post Happy New Year — 2014! PowerPoint Tips Multimedia: Music, sound & video Happy New Year 2014 [link]. Did you find this post useful? Get my free ebook "From Death by PowerPoint to Life by PowerPoint." Click here to find out about training to bring your presentations to the next level! appeared first on PowerPoint Tips Blog. Animation & transitions Misc. MORE
As Melissa Korn reports in The Wall Street Journal, the MBA Class of 2014 are turning down jobs. Tomorrow the job figures are coming out from the Labor Department. They are expected to be good. There is also another sign of an economic recovery. MORE
A colleague lost her well-paying job. Of course we all grieved with her. But soon enough she as well as the Greek Chorus bounced back from glum to near euphoria. We recounted the success we are having on the freelance market. MORE
Before there were racy like Cosmo and experimental like Lear's (for the mature woman), there was Ladies' Home Journal. For 131 years it was there, guiding those striving to be middle class (like my mom) how to arrange their space and lives. MORE
The research on mirror neurons by scientists in Italy confirms that we humans affect each other cell by cell. Sure, technology is a connector force. But there is nothing like one in-person human presence pressing up influentially against another in-person human. MORE
Good Pitching in 2014. Confidence in the recovery is palpable among small businesses. THE WALL STREET JOURNAL puts that into numbers. MORE
I spent part of the weekend at the San Francisco Writers Conference which is organized by the irrepressible Mike Larsen and Elizabeth Pomona. I was helping staff the Editorial Freelancers Association booth so did not have time to attend any of the rich offering of sessions. MORE
We are all only on assignment. That's the 21st century meme. The traditional job is vanishing. Maybe we get to still have one of those when we are young. But then we really are only on assignment, with our eye constantly on hustling for the next one. MORE
Everywhere there were help-wanted for ghostwriters and speechwriters just about every week in 2014. Thank you, those of you who used our services in 2014. David Murray posted them on Vital Speeches of the Day. Gotham Ghostwriters and Silicon Valley Speechwriters also carried the ads. MORE
On this July 20, 2014, there are myriad socially adept and/or wealthy human beings who are losers. The New Losers are those who wake up and assume today will be like yesterday. MORE
This is a guest post by Mike Parkinson. Mike is an internationally recognized visual communication and presentation expert, trainer, and award-winning author. Over the last 22 years, he created thousands of presentations that results in improved success rates for his clients. MORE
Yet most members of the Class of 2014 are entering a Dickensian type of economy clueless about how to sell themselves to employers, temp agencies and investors for their startups. Parents of the Class of 2014 should forget about gifts like cars and trips to China. MORE
I’m off this month to the 2014 Ragan Speechwriters Conference in Washington DC. It’ll be my fifth conference. As in previous years, I’ll be podcasting interviews with attendees and presenters and grabbing some video with my Flip video camera to post to YouTube. MORE
But, if we are working in 2014, either for an organization or as a self-employed, we are temps. You and I may not be among 2.8 million Americans employed by temporary services agencies. MORE
You''ll see a separate list of our most popular Famous Speech Friday posts for 2014 on Friday. Here''s what you read most in 2014: Talk About the Talk: Caroline Goyder on confident speaking at TEDxBrixton shares the first-person perspective of a speaker I worked with this year. MORE
Are you a font freak? Do you just LOVE interesting fonts? I must admit that I’m a font idiot who can hardly tell the difference between Arial, Tahoma and Verdana, unless they’re right next to each other. Even then, I won’t know which is which. MORE
Even before the Ebola crisis at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital worsened, the healthcare facility had hired brandname public relations agency Burson-Marsteller. That was October 10th. Here is coverage of that development in Odwyerpr.com by Greg Hazley. MORE
Daily, we ghostwriters and speechwriters take on the identity of our brandname clients. Halloween provides the opportunity to live in that fantasy that we are those famous people. The very best costume requires a partner. We are to dress like Jack and Jackie Kennedy. MORE
" - Keith Kelly, "Blue Christmas on horizon for Gray Lady with layoffs looming," in New York Post, November 25, 2014. MORE
When I do a book proposal, even for a book that will be self-published, I outline the publicity plan. That includes a detailed description of at least three top publicists. Yes, I interview them as part of the proposal process. MORE
In 2014, we skipped well past 160 famous speeches by women in The Eloquent Woman Index, all from our Famous Speech Friday series. The most-read FSF posts published in 2014 about individual speeches reflect the diversity of our speakers and our readers. MORE
Hercules the first super storm of 2014 was just dropping the first inch of so of the foot or more which it could leave on the New Haven, Connecticut Metro area. Jars and jars of peanut butter, white bread and sugary sodas were still on the shelves in grocery stores. MORE
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Assefi hosting a session at TEDMED 2014 (Editor''s note: TEDMED director of stage content Nassim Assefi is a doctor, novelist, civic activist, TED Fellow and active member of the TED community. TEDMED 2014 has shown it''s possible when you prioritize it. MORE
entries by May 15, 2014 to HumorPowerTips@HumorPower.com. The next contest will be posted on June 1, 2014. It’s time for our May Joke Contest. Our theme this month is: What to Say to a Naked Person. Some of your lines might be “good” things to say, and some may be “bad” things to say. They will most likely be funny. And the challenge is to keep the lines in good taste. Here are some sample lines, based on the theme, to get you started. MORE
Earlier, I shared what I read in 2013 , and promised I''d share what I''d be reading in 2014, under my ''52 in 52'' Goal. Drive - Daniel Pink - next one cued up on Audible Audio Programs to Listen or Re-Listen to in 2014 46. MORE
This arctic blast in a summer of supposed recovery is not what organizations expected. From business to churches most of the leadership had been moving along on the assumption that the worst was over. Then came the Q1 GDP report that the economy had contracted 2.9%. MORE
Favreau gave the opening keynote—Words matter: Storytelling with President Obama in an age of sound bites—at the 2014 Ragan Speechwriters Conference. There’s only 24 hours in a day, which is why President Obama, despite being an accomplished writer and orator, needs help with his speeches. MORE
Well, 2014 is turning out not to be the very good year we assumed we deserved. From 9/11 on, we have been struggling with unexpected crisis. We figured we were entitled to a break. Now Ebola is a reality. Our nest egg is threatened with the volatile stock market. MORE
In 2014, it's on the media covering media there. Everything changes. The focus on the annual power fest of the World Economic Forum meet-up in Davos, Switzerland used to be coverage of weighty issues like where the global economy is headed or sustainability. MORE
Yet, some of us in other lines of work are sheepish in claiming that the Winter of 2014 has delivered a hit to our business. In the North Haven, Connecticut shopping center a lot of retailers have a long face. MORE
And that has been the source of total angst and great physical suffering during this 2014 Winter of Discontent. Much of the Northeast Corridor, unlike the midwest, has excellent public transportation. For example, right outside my building in central Connecticut the D5 bus stops. MORE
We celebrated our 100th post , and we''re starting 2014 with a total of 128 famous speeches by women, most with an emphasis on women''s issues. MORE
The United Nations Climate Summit has been meeting in New York this week, drawing a slew of celebrities and heads of state. But the UN wanted the voice of a citizen, rather than a high-powered dignitary, to speak at the summit''s opening. MORE
The rub is that the everything is changing in more ways and more often in 2014. After a wildly successful 2013, I hit a wall in the beginning of 2014. That raw-boned experience taught me plenty about how to conduct business in 2014. Everything always changes. MORE
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Across industries, generations and income levels, the buzzword is "contagious." " In communications we have to seed our clients' communications with that term. Otherwise, the publics they address will assume they are just not in-touch. MORE
Here’s a free On Demand archive of certain presentations from the conference. For speechwriters, I highly recommend Nancy Duarte’s talk “Resonate: Present Visual Stories that Transform Audiences” and Giovanni Livera‘s “Storyboarding Workshop” Both are listed in the tab for Monday June 30. The Tuesday presentation by Jay Baer on the “Speaker as Media Company” has […]. Speechwriting MORE
You will never be invited to present at TED Talks if you're a mere expert. Instead you had to position and package yourself as a Thought Hacker. And if you plan to ghostwrite those TED Talk remarks you better reinvent yourself as a Communications Disruptor. MORE
Designed to help you stay in the game, this is your weekly tip sheet for having maximum impact with your voice and in all your communication. WHAT YOUR VOICE NEEDS IS A GOOD WORKING VACATION Many of you are planning to take some time off over the next couple of weeks. In fact, some of […]. MORE
But that doesn't mean that the 2014 holiday season will be a totally joyful one. This is America, where the Disneyfication of life thrived. So, the first impulse is to expect a happy ending, following an ordeal. But that's not how it goes, is it. Yes, Madonna Badger has re-started her business. Last July she eloped with William Duke. In 2011, in a Christmas morning fire in her Stamford, Connecticut home, she lost her three young daughters and her parents. MORE
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2014 Related Topics Ian Griffin - Professionally Speaking
FEBRUARY 3, 2014
I’m off this month to the 2014 Ragan Speechwriters Conference in Washington DC. It’ll be my fifth conference. As in previous years, I’ll be podcasting interviews with attendees and presenters and grabbing some video with my Flip video camera to post to YouTube.
PowerPoint Tips
DECEMBER 30, 2013
The post Happy New Year — 2014! PowerPoint Tips Multimedia: Music, sound & video Happy New Year 2014 [link]. Did you find this post useful? Get my free ebook "From Death by PowerPoint to Life by PowerPoint." Click here to find out about training to bring your presentations to the next level! appeared first on PowerPoint Tips Blog. Animation & transitions Misc.
Ian Griffin - Professionally Speaking
FEBRUARY 18, 2014
I spent part of the weekend at the San Francisco Writers Conference which is organized by the irrepressible Mike Larsen and Elizabeth Pomona. I was helping staff the Editorial Freelancers Association booth so did not have time to attend any of the rich offering of sessions.
Ian Griffin - Professionally Speaking
JULY 2, 2014
Here’s a free On Demand archive of certain presentations from the conference. For speechwriters, I highly recommend Nancy Duarte’s talk “Resonate: Present Visual Stories that Transform Audiences” and Giovanni Livera‘s “Storyboarding Workshop” Both are listed in the tab for Monday June 30. The Tuesday presentation by Jay Baer on the “Speaker as Media Company” has […]. Speechwriting
Speak and Deliver
JANUARY 1, 2014
Earlier, I shared what I read in 2013 , and promised I''d share what I''d be reading in 2014, under my ''52 in 52'' Goal. Drive - Daniel Pink - next one cued up on Audible Audio Programs to Listen or Re-Listen to in 2014 46.
Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter
OCTOBER 9, 2014
Daily, we ghostwriters and speechwriters take on the identity of our brandname clients. Halloween provides the opportunity to live in that fantasy that we are those famous people. The very best costume requires a partner. We are to dress like Jack and Jackie Kennedy.
Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter
APRIL 3, 2014
As Melissa Korn reports in The Wall Street Journal, the MBA Class of 2014 are turning down jobs. Tomorrow the job figures are coming out from the Labor Department. They are expected to be good. There is also another sign of an economic recovery.
Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter
AUGUST 31, 2014
But, if we are working in 2014, either for an organization or as a self-employed, we are temps. You and I may not be among 2.8 million Americans employed by temporary services agencies.
The Eloquent Woman
JANUARY 3, 2014
We celebrated our 100th post , and we''re starting 2014 with a total of 128 famous speeches by women, most with an emphasis on women''s issues.
Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter
JULY 20, 2014
On this July 20, 2014, there are myriad socially adept and/or wealthy human beings who are losers. The New Losers are those who wake up and assume today will be like yesterday.
The Eloquent Woman
DECEMBER 25, 2014
You''ll see a separate list of our most popular Famous Speech Friday posts for 2014 on Friday. Here''s what you read most in 2014: Talk About the Talk: Caroline Goyder on confident speaking at TEDxBrixton shares the first-person perspective of a speaker I worked with this year.
Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter
OCTOBER 15, 2014
Well, 2014 is turning out not to be the very good year we assumed we deserved. From 9/11 on, we have been struggling with unexpected crisis. We figured we were entitled to a break. Now Ebola is a reality. Our nest egg is threatened with the volatile stock market.
Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter
MAY 8, 2014
A colleague lost her well-paying job. Of course we all grieved with her. But soon enough she as well as the Greek Chorus bounced back from glum to near euphoria. We recounted the success we are having on the freelance market.
Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter
NOVEMBER 27, 2014
" - Keith Kelly, "Blue Christmas on horizon for Gray Lady with layoffs looming," in New York Post, November 25, 2014.
Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter
NOVEMBER 4, 2014
But that doesn't mean that the 2014 holiday season will be a totally joyful one. This is America, where the Disneyfication of life thrived. So, the first impulse is to expect a happy ending, following an ordeal. But that's not how it goes, is it. Yes, Madonna Badger has re-started her business. Last July she eloped with William Duke. In 2011, in a Christmas morning fire in her Stamford, Connecticut home, she lost her three young daughters and her parents.
Humor Power
MAY 1, 2014
entries by May 15, 2014 to HumorPowerTips@HumorPower.com. The next contest will be posted on June 1, 2014. It’s time for our May Joke Contest. Our theme this month is: What to Say to a Naked Person. Some of your lines might be “good” things to say, and some may be “bad” things to say. They will most likely be funny. And the challenge is to keep the lines in good taste. Here are some sample lines, based on the theme, to get you started.
Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter
JANUARY 3, 2014
You will never be invited to present at TED Talks if you're a mere expert. Instead you had to position and package yourself as a Thought Hacker. And if you plan to ghostwrite those TED Talk remarks you better reinvent yourself as a Communications Disruptor.
Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter
JANUARY 2, 2014
Hercules the first super storm of 2014 was just dropping the first inch of so of the foot or more which it could leave on the New Haven, Connecticut Metro area. Jars and jars of peanut butter, white bread and sugary sodas were still on the shelves in grocery stores.
Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter
OCTOBER 22, 2014
When I do a book proposal, even for a book that will be self-published, I outline the publicity plan. That includes a detailed description of at least three top publicists. Yes, I interview them as part of the proposal process.
Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter
JUNE 6, 2014
The research on mirror neurons by scientists in Italy confirms that we humans affect each other cell by cell. Sure, technology is a connector force. But there is nothing like one in-person human presence pressing up influentially against another in-person human.
Speak and Deliver
DECEMBER 30, 2014
Below is my list of 52 books (which turned into 61 as I added new books along the way) that I set a goal to read and review in 2014. Drive - Daniel Pink - next one cued up on Audible Audio Programs to Listen or Re-Listen to in 2014 46.
The Eloquent Woman
DECEMBER 26, 2014
In 2014, we skipped well past 160 famous speeches by women in The Eloquent Woman Index, all from our Famous Speech Friday series. The most-read FSF posts published in 2014 about individual speeches reflect the diversity of our speakers and our readers.
Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter
JULY 19, 2014
The rub is that the everything is changing in more ways and more often in 2014. After a wildly successful 2013, I hit a wall in the beginning of 2014. That raw-boned experience taught me plenty about how to conduct business in 2014. Everything always changes.
Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter
MAY 11, 2014
We are all only on assignment. That's the 21st century meme. The traditional job is vanishing. Maybe we get to still have one of those when we are young. But then we really are only on assignment, with our eye constantly on hustling for the next one.
Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter
MARCH 13, 2014
Across industries, generations and income levels, the buzzword is "contagious." " In communications we have to seed our clients' communications with that term. Otherwise, the publics they address will assume they are just not in-touch.
Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter
DECEMBER 31, 2014
Everywhere there were help-wanted for ghostwriters and speechwriters just about every week in 2014. Thank you, those of you who used our services in 2014. David Murray posted them on Vital Speeches of the Day. Gotham Ghostwriters and Silicon Valley Speechwriters also carried the ads.
Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter
MARCH 23, 2014
Yet most members of the Class of 2014 are entering a Dickensian type of economy clueless about how to sell themselves to employers, temp agencies and investors for their startups. Parents of the Class of 2014 should forget about gifts like cars and trips to China.
The Eloquent Woman
SEPTEMBER 26, 2014
The United Nations Climate Summit has been meeting in New York this week, drawing a slew of celebrities and heads of state. But the UN wanted the voice of a citizen, rather than a high-powered dignitary, to speak at the summit''s opening.
Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter
JUNE 25, 2014
This arctic blast in a summer of supposed recovery is not what organizations expected. From business to churches most of the leadership had been moving along on the assumption that the worst was over. Then came the Q1 GDP report that the economy had contracted 2.9%.
Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter
OCTOBER 16, 2014
Even before the Ebola crisis at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital worsened, the healthcare facility had hired brandname public relations agency Burson-Marsteller. That was October 10th. Here is coverage of that development in Odwyerpr.com by Greg Hazley.
Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter
MARCH 31, 2014
This morning the date is March 31, 2014. There seems to be a correlation: The longer the snow season lingers in the high-pressure Northeast the less bearable is listening to Troubles Talk. Or, come to think of it, any uninvited conversation.
TJ Walker Interactive
JANUARY 27, 2014
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Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter
FEBRUARY 12, 2014
And that has been the source of total angst and great physical suffering during this 2014 Winter of Discontent. Much of the Northeast Corridor, unlike the midwest, has excellent public transportation. For example, right outside my building in central Connecticut the D5 bus stops.
Ian Griffin - Professionally Speaking
FEBRUARY 24, 2014
Favreau gave the opening keynote—Words matter: Storytelling with President Obama in an age of sound bites—at the 2014 Ragan Speechwriters Conference. There’s only 24 hours in a day, which is why President Obama, despite being an accomplished writer and orator, needs help with his speeches.
PowerPoint Tips
DECEMBER 15, 2014
This is a guest post by Mike Parkinson. Mike is an internationally recognized visual communication and presentation expert, trainer, and award-winning author. Over the last 22 years, he created thousands of presentations that results in improved success rates for his clients.
Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter
JANUARY 1, 2014
Good Pitching in 2014. Confidence in the recovery is palpable among small businesses. THE WALL STREET JOURNAL puts that into numbers.
Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter
FEBRUARY 11, 2014
Yet, some of us in other lines of work are sheepish in claiming that the Winter of 2014 has delivered a hit to our business. In the North Haven, Connecticut shopping center a lot of retailers have a long face.
Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter
APRIL 24, 2014
Before there were racy like Cosmo and experimental like Lear's (for the mature woman), there was Ladies' Home Journal. For 131 years it was there, guiding those striving to be middle class (like my mom) how to arrange their space and lives.
PowerPoint Tips
OCTOBER 11, 2014
Are you a font freak? Do you just LOVE interesting fonts? I must admit that I’m a font idiot who can hardly tell the difference between Arial, Tahoma and Verdana, unless they’re right next to each other. Even then, I won’t know which is which.
Kate's Voice
DECEMBER 18, 2014
Designed to help you stay in the game, this is your weekly tip sheet for having maximum impact with your voice and in all your communication. WHAT YOUR VOICE NEEDS IS A GOOD WORKING VACATION Many of you are planning to take some time off over the next couple of weeks. In fact, some of […].
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